Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1887-05-05

Theh The sick man stared hard at
the face above him again, as IL nursing
his confused senses, and, went on
orokenly and bropthins hatdl ''1-=alh't
--gqt t.sfaf ~ so; f-guess-he's-gonc;
but can't go without tcllin' some ono;
him m-and-me--dono-it; he-done-
tho--killin', but I-mddc-- -thc-pldn~
Then he stopped, and with wild eyes
tried to get up, but fell bach and sifug-
fled fBr breath. John Earling strained
forward with beads of sweat upon his
brow, and the policeman, sitting on
the pallets edge with lantern in one
hand and with his other big purple
paw gfasping tho sick mans arm,
gaspcd ortl "Snags aud sandbars, but
This IL riloyW and stared ncrvously at
the wild, withercd face before HIM
1t was some moments ere the sick
mans eyes again gathered amy intel
ligeht Hight and then their power of
sight seemed much as II il were rea
vcrsed and saw within rather than
without then suddenly he cried,
wildly:
"f lorcd his rife ~ ELrzABETml"
then lay painting and glaring, "and [
hated him. Oil t-lovedE her,-but
--sho-ncvcr- knew it; I-was in
sane--then, may be was-always--
insane;-and / lovod her; | thought
may be II he was-duad -could-get
her; but -killed-hcr-too and
the withered head rolled to and fro
upon the hard thin pillow and moanod.
/ was-a-long time, c,-l-don't-.
know-hOw done il now, "A getting
Prine-into-it; he was young and
kept my accounts then. -he-changcd
his name 49, to-Fowlcr- when he
went West TO keep track-of-the-
child; he - done -- the - KILN 49, and
took the money, kept the deed
10 the place; when-Shc died
and-was-bu buried battle-ground I
never stepped on il afterwards without
fear; -hunted-me-an d-pursusl
whcrD- night ard day-summer and
winpr always q everywhere evory-
where; then FowiNr wrote me to
Brazil - vast t- BE9zilP / don't
know w-now,-he Srotn me the
ld-had-dicd- -may b. it cid
and may be he lied TO
keep me from comm back and givin'
the land to-the-child-an -and-tellin',
-but-I- / couldn't come back, L
never quit goin' and goiB and trying
to-gct away-from her! But after
while / got poor-then- -old-then rick
then well-then sick again-sick nj
ways-always then / set out to walk
hcrc%I guess from Mexico.-IN- -
wanted to tell her my niece
tChy. and bring her the will. have =
sister-I used to have-named Bower
| think-who lives out where they too &
the child-somewhere out West |
don't-know-- w--where-now- ougl
a went there aud seen IL Fowler lied
-but-I-couldn't-I was afraid to;
I've always been afraid-always-
ways,--l left the land to my niece
Celeste Celeste Brights her name.
think-because heard she was an or
phan-and-I-thought-may be-her
-heart-would- soft from her
troubles -and-she would bc-sure
to do good with the land, -
the land. I-wonder er-where-the-
lands? It-it'--then he got trem-
blingly upon his elbow again and
peered slowly around the cell, the
frightened policeman starting back
from tho awful face and feyerous
breath.
Again and again the vague, CLASSY
eyes went slowly around the room.
! stopping 4 moment each time as thoy
crossed the strained white face of the
young man leaning toward them. cit
in't-it-aln't t-herew whispered tho
| the CHASTITY lips, "Ive -becn-drcamin'
again; I-had-come-
! back-but-b butts Mcxicoi this must
be the little black room at Gonzelack's
| In the mountains-where- i ye-been
sick 50 long there's his face hoatin'
In the shadows, and ovor--there is
hers-and there's his again! He never
was-quite -so-still-a that before!
It's so hot here in MeXico-Oh! | wish
l could get out on the mountain-sido
and sit by a spring under the trees
and-drink - water - -out-Of-a-big
leaf again! OH Hm-so -dryl my
tongue is - all o. covered - with
| dust, I've suffered O. I've suf.
fered-so! Wont-Gonzelack- ever
| come with-tbe - water?' and the
ghastly figure began to writhe and
struggle to got up. The bigpolceman
shook like leaf and tried to hold him
down, but the clammy fingers clutchcd
bis, the staring eyes were in his face,
the gasping breath was on his cheek.
and with yell of terror the pictur-
esque limb of the law tore himself
loose, leaped through the door and
was gone.
John Earling, to whom the hour, tho
moment, the language, the scene. were
vivid rs lightning. binding him 90
times, leapsd mp and caught the wild
figure and p sssed it slowly back upon
the pillow. FOR moment he held the
sick man there, gazing into the deleri.
Gus face. and even in his dark agony,
feeling the mans pulse futtering feebly
against the inside of his hands where
he grasped the thin, hot wrists. There
lay the man beneath him who had
caused his fathers death, who had
loved his mother and had opened the
grave 10 her, and who. o God was of
mg,ic in the veins Of her who had
crowned his spirit with life's choicest
flower! lie had not heard the name,
yet II 1t had been pealed into the cell
by trumpet he would not have known
more surely that it was Ivyl Snaer;
Iyyl Snaer, for whom that other
darker being had shricked in the
stormy night under the fatal
tree at Opcnstone. All, how fearfully
they had paid the black penalty! How
thick were deaths tracks upon this
trcmor-shaken wreck How suffering
had burnt and gnawed and eaten him
10 she bone! And that Otherl How
like flight of lightning. memories
eros sed him now, OF the book -keeDer'g
agony in the wood, the consuming
fever that fed upon him, and the dark
burrowing loneliness Of his life! And
he had mi d 10 save him at the last, to
suecor him in fierce pity from the bal
teri All, he was ignorant Of that other
unspeakably cruel blow then! Hut did
he not know of the knife that had
parted the white neck of the wrouged